Check games on wiiU such as Xenoblades X. The wiiU was not pushed because it was not selling so nintendo abandoned it.

My issue was with the comment that it was a massive upgrade, as I said the ps4 pro has a much bigger upgrade to slim ps4 than wiiU to switch.

The upgrade exists but its nowhere near a generational or even mid-ten upgrade. Nowhere near the wii to wiiU upgrade which was massive.

Those games you mention on switch most look really bad full of aliasing and framerate issues.

Diminishing returns? PSVR is at the bottom of the fidelity ladder. PSVR 2.0 or simply VR games running on PS5 will be as big a leap as PS2 to PS3.

And hopefully we'll get dynamic time and weather back in Gran Turismo. GT Sport was a generational step backwards in that regard.

It's there by design to keep the single player races interesting. We live in a time now where it needs to be easy to win and it needs to look like you deserve to win. If the AI would drive to their capabilities most races would be nothing but boring watch the gaps grow events.

The problem is, then those players enter online and drive against real people as if they're racing the AI causing chaos since real people don't jump out of the way to let idiots pass. Drivatards don't teach any better racing skills. The 'AI' in Forza Horizon 4 was horrible, not fun to race at all. I turned the difficulty down so I could focus on driving fast clean races instead of getting rammed by the idiot AI all the time.

The AI in GT Sport can be pretty good if you figure out how to balance them. That's a shortfall of the game, but it is possible to get good races against the AI after a lot of tweaking. (Mostly using under powered cars and or worse tires) The AI does know how to race, but it's held back for the sake of needing to be easy to beat.

I don't care that much, I'm very much fine with TloU2 graphics fidelity + very clean image quality at high framerates, especially if there is no visible lod changes/pop in/shadow draw in etc anymore. It would be amazing if this turns out to be much easier to achieve next gen, hopefully resulting in more game releases from premium studios.

Yes I know it is done to increase the enjoyment like making you pass a lot of drivers during the race but keep under pressure. Sure enough in some races you have the tweak done so well and are so OP that even with the rubber-band in a 5laps race it is possible to overlap every oponent. It is just something I don't like and don't need, but certainly understand why it is there.

And considering I hate even more when older AIs crashed on player and used you to take a corner or brake I'm pretty sure I would hate even more the drivatar that mimic this type of driving style of a lot of players out there.

I do agree with you on the tweaking and that is mainly the reason I do for lack of damage physics. In real racing once you hit hard you are out of the race so racing is done with no crash or collision. If you want to mimic that reality in the game just hit reset race whenever you bump hard in someone. Also if you want challenge just get the minimum possible winning car performance and drive like that, you'll barely pass them in the end of the race. Agree as well that the AI drives properly and on the right line almost all the time, and only change that if you are too aggressive then they will counter the same way.

On challenge though we should get back those from GT5 where even though the drivers would always do the same, if you didn't know the best or perfect way to race that challenge you wouldn't be able to finish first no matter what.

I stopped caring about graphical leaps 20 years ago

There is the Lewis Hamilton DLC (only paid DLC for GT Sport) for those wanting to challenge themselves. It's not racing him though, just his time trial ghost with a bunch of videos how to get better. I don't like time trials so skipped it.

The hard challenges in GT were always those instant fail ones when you make contact or go over the line with more than 2 wheels. That taught you proper racing lines. But then Grid introduced rewind which Forza took over :/ That was the end of my love for Forza as a sim...

For me, games like Luigi's Mansion 3 and Mario Odyssey still look great. 

As far as Switch's eventual successor, I'm less concerned with how pretty it'll look and more about it having the necessary power to run a wide range of games, just as Switch's graphical upgrade over Wii U is less important to me than its ability to run PS4/Xbone games like Doom, Witcher 3, and Hellblade.

Driving line, brake assist, corner assist plus rewind when summed with already the real world driving assist make the racing a joke so yes for me it is obtuse to play a simulator like that.

I think it's up to the artists nowadays to create those hi-res AAA shiny-ness. If games from the 7th gen could look convincing enough Resi 5, Uncharted, Last of Us, Gears, MGS5, Super Mario Galaxy, then 4K and VR are the only new venues graphics have to conquer in the 9th gen... and potentially making larger open worlds without limiting the graphical detail or using techniques to save memory. But I think the 8th gen may have conquered detail in open worlds that look convincing enough with games like Red Dead Redemption 2 & Witcher 3.

Voxel sculpting/modelling could become a new thing. It takes a lot of power/memory as objects are made of molecules rather than flat polygons with textures. This would create more precision to destructible environments in games. Or digging holes in the ground. It could create new entire genres or even create more range of art styles/direction too from a 3D modelling perspective.

Graphics only matter for me because of VR. The player can see the game environment up close and in more detail than when playing on a flat screen. An in-game pencil on a table has to look like a real pencil up-close too, not a texture on a table or a triangular cylinder - Same with that 2D polygon grass-effect games typically use. Textures need to be higher res too. (and that grainy effect that PSVR has has to go, plus the general resolution of PSVR needs to be higher to prevent any blurriness. Also the black boarders around the eyes (making it feel like your looking out of a visor/helmet) has to go too) but those are hardware issues outside of the console's GPU, but they still attribute to overall graphics of VR games.

But generally (as for non-VR games), I don't think graphics are much of a revolutionary thing anymore. Particularly Nintendo because their art direction is convincing enough for them to create anything they want with the current graphics power. It's just up to the artists to have an artistic vision from now on.